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trinityvixenI, being a good doobie, give my boss a heads-up/chance-to-tell-me-no e-mail about some shadowing of the veterinary staff here next week. I get the following response:
Given the hectic holiday season that is upon us, I feel that you need to work full-time during the lab's regular business hours to ensure that we make good progress in the next month. Please minimize shadowing the vet staff & working comp time.
I must remind everyone who's been following this saga that I gave up an entire weekend to tell her and listen to my coworkers tell her what it is we want in life, how we plan on getting it, and what we could do in the lab/through our association in the lab to get there.
My not being here in the mornings roughly once or twice every two weeks in no way compromises our lab's chance of success or hinders our progress. This is still part and parcel of her recent insanity regarding vacation. I mean, I literally told her that I would, minute for minute, make up any time I was out in the mornings, and I have. Besides which, the vets start so early, I barely miss any time. I'm not doing any timed experiments (nor am I expected to in the near-to-late future). Everyone else wanders in along a spectrum of times from 9:30 to 11, so I don't need to be in at 10 am sharp. (Those of you who work 9-to-5, I get it. I hate me, too.) I have a smart phone form which I've repeatedly demonstrated my ability to keep up with any requests at odd hours. It's just petty, at this point, to assume time spent at work at only barely odd hours somehow hinders my or anyone else's work.
But, of course, none of that matters. She's the boss. If she says I have to be here, I do. It's a luxury to take time off of when I would otherwise be here and defer it to later for my own purposes, even if those purposes are to further my career--a goal which she is so ostensibly in favor of, she forces us to spend our weekends telling her about it! I could almost handle her just saying "No, work is my time, you do what you want on your time only." It wouldn't be rank hypocrisy.
Given the hectic holiday season that is upon us, I feel that you need to work full-time during the lab's regular business hours to ensure that we make good progress in the next month. Please minimize shadowing the vet staff & working comp time.
I must remind everyone who's been following this saga that I gave up an entire weekend to tell her and listen to my coworkers tell her what it is we want in life, how we plan on getting it, and what we could do in the lab/through our association in the lab to get there.
My not being here in the mornings roughly once or twice every two weeks in no way compromises our lab's chance of success or hinders our progress. This is still part and parcel of her recent insanity regarding vacation. I mean, I literally told her that I would, minute for minute, make up any time I was out in the mornings, and I have. Besides which, the vets start so early, I barely miss any time. I'm not doing any timed experiments (nor am I expected to in the near-to-late future). Everyone else wanders in along a spectrum of times from 9:30 to 11, so I don't need to be in at 10 am sharp. (Those of you who work 9-to-5, I get it. I hate me, too.) I have a smart phone form which I've repeatedly demonstrated my ability to keep up with any requests at odd hours. It's just petty, at this point, to assume time spent at work at only barely odd hours somehow hinders my or anyone else's work.
But, of course, none of that matters. She's the boss. If she says I have to be here, I do. It's a luxury to take time off of when I would otherwise be here and defer it to later for my own purposes, even if those purposes are to further my career--a goal which she is so ostensibly in favor of, she forces us to spend our weekends telling her about it! I could almost handle her just saying "No, work is my time, you do what you want on your time only." It wouldn't be rank hypocrisy.
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Date: 2011-12-03 12:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-04 05:33 am (UTC)Don't let her get to you. She knows you're going to be leaving soon for vet school, and she's trying to squeeze everything she can out of you before you leave her high and dry with your wacky team. Bosses can be very weird, especially when it's their own business and they aren't able to control how every little thing goes. I've worked for someone who sounds a lot like your boss, and it wasn't fun; it's another kind of punishment for being the great employee that you are, and her behavior wouldn't be so effective if you cared any less about the job. It sucks when people use your own good work ethic to manipulate you.
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Date: 2011-12-04 01:15 pm (UTC)It sounds more like a powerplay from an insecure boss. Of course, that doesn't mean that she won't get even pettier, but my thought on this is that she said, in writing for you to minimize time spent shadowing, not stop shadowing altogether.
As long as you're documenting time spent (which you are) and being communicative in advance about when, how long, why, and what you're doing to make up for it (which you really, really have), if she's not telling you explicitly to stop, I would go ahead with it. It's not like she's losing you for a full day each week for the next 3 months.
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Date: 2011-12-04 01:19 pm (UTC)It sounds ridiculous, but bad bosses eat crap like that up, because they get to feel forceful and magnanimous at the same time.